Y'know, I'm surprised none of DC's writers ever thought to try to reinvent him as a hacker who creates a program that makes it that every time someone in Gotham makes an electronic transaction, he gets a penny from it. Based on a census done after the New 52, I figure this way, he'd make a minimum $10,000 dollars a day. Plus, it would be an interesting thing that could rely on Barbara's Oracle skills.
@djpegao
2 жыл бұрын
We don't talk about Superman III
@rouenation
2 жыл бұрын
@@djpegao lol... we will just think of it as the worm program in Hackers or the program in Office Space instead B~)
@RickReasonnz
2 жыл бұрын
Hey now, Visa and Mastercard don't want any competition muscling in on their graft!
@MattMcIrvin
2 жыл бұрын
@@rouenation Loved how the guys in Office Space literally described it as the scheme from Superman III.
@johnbockelie3899
2 жыл бұрын
"Gosh Batman, where did your giant penny come from anyways ?". " The court room battle between millionaire Bruce Wayne, and millionaire Scrooge Mc Duck........., I hid it from both of them , so Robin it's now our secret."
@samwill7259
2 жыл бұрын
"it doesn't need to be that gritty, bro." is a message most comics could take to heart these days, especially DC, ESPECIALLY Batman
@ExeErdna
2 жыл бұрын
They can't help it at this point
@eskreskao
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, one hundred per-cent.
@juliagoodwin9510
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@WannabeWryter
2 жыл бұрын
It also doesn't have to have Batman in it. DC: 😮 😲 .... say sike right now.
@samwill7259
2 жыл бұрын
@@WannabeWryter You can make a team book that doesn't have batman or harley quinn in it. I promise.
@manis1551
2 жыл бұрын
The modern retellings made Batman look like a sociopath as he kept a giant coin that crashed Penny Plunderer to death while he presumably made Alfred or Robin wipe the blood off the coin lol.
@RickReasonnz
2 жыл бұрын
What makes you think that Psycho Bruce didn't keep the bloodstain?
@magitek09
2 жыл бұрын
Now I want a story that's nothing but Bruce and Alfred trying to get the pennie inside the batcave, like it's a really big sofa
@FantasticDinos
2 жыл бұрын
“Pivot, Master Bruce! Pivot!!!”
@justinjacobs1501
6 ай бұрын
Alfred? You mean Pennyworth?
@tysondennis1016
Ай бұрын
@@justinjacobs1501*PENNYWORTH?!*
@bigneon_glitter
2 жыл бұрын
Robin: "Hey, Batman, where'd you get that giant penny?" Batman: "Giant penny?? Egads! We've been shrunk down by Mr Freeze's diabolical shrink ray!" Robin: "Oh no!" Batman: "Lol...no, it's just a real a big penny. Watch out! A dinosaur!" Robin: "Whaa..?"
@HankChinaski27
2 жыл бұрын
There needs to be a haunted penny story. The penny is now possessed by Coyne's soul, and makes "spooky" ghost noises anytime Bruce is around.
@kemmdog4444
2 жыл бұрын
I think Joe Coyne should definitely keep turning up like a bad penny.
@mikecase2372
2 жыл бұрын
Now that we are in the Age of the Omniverse and all stories are valid, I choose to believe that the giant coin is a gift to Batman from the King of Mars.
@buddyzilla4557
2 жыл бұрын
Doesn't anyone else love that he claims he will use coppers to get back at coppers and then it is the inclusion if a zinc-steel penny that helps Batman escape him?
@scottboswell6406
2 жыл бұрын
That's some tasty irony!
@NegativeDumpster
Жыл бұрын
What makes it even better is the fact that Batman escapes...with the help of some _coppers._ Coyne vows to "get back at coppers and pennies", and that he'll "fight coppers with pennies". But when he tries to do exactly that, the pennies help Batman escape, and the coppers do the rest of the rescuing. Coyne's grudge against police and pennies was his undoing, in multiple ways.
@fayertreijd919
9 ай бұрын
With the composition of modern pennies, he could easily transition into 'the zinc fink'
@PitFriend1
2 жыл бұрын
Technically, Two-Face did flip a coin in the latest update to the story. It just happened to be the giant murder penny.
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
That makes all the sense! After all, how could Harvey know on witch side it would land?
@kevinbaird6705
2 жыл бұрын
06:29 Dark Claw, the Amalgam fusion of Batman and Wolverine, had a Canadian penny is his Dark Claw Cave.
@chidaluokoro9104
2 жыл бұрын
That great
@buddyzilla4557
2 жыл бұрын
The penny is mightier than the sword..and twice as deadly! Just ask Joe coin, it killed him twice!
@metalspinda9594
2 жыл бұрын
I'm stealing this for my fanfic!
@tysondennis1016
Ай бұрын
And there’s his demise in his first appearance: He couldn’t call for backup, as pay phones don’t accept pennies, so he gets busted and sentenced to death for murder. Joe “Penny Plunderer” Coyne has one of the highest, if not the highest, death-to-appearance ratios in comics.
@lamenia
2 жыл бұрын
The story of Joe Coyne is a real penny dreadful!
@NomicFin
2 жыл бұрын
So in that one version Batman pretty much went "wow, that dude got crushed by a giant coin. Robin, wipe off the blood, I'm taking that thing as a souvenir!"
@Hellohello-kf6qw
2 жыл бұрын
I love how educational the original Golden Age stories are--that story could teach someone that you can make batteries out of pennies, and it taught me that zinc pennies were once produced during the war!
@readingking1421
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly I love hearing about the wacky Gold-and-Silver age villains like this, and having Penny Plunderer treated like that in the modern day is just harsh. And "Almost Got'im is easily one of the best B:TAS episodes they made imho.
@wdcain1
2 жыл бұрын
Good gravy! The original script for the Penny Plunderer would work so well for an episode of _Batman: The Brave and the Bold._
@markshulusky6680
2 жыл бұрын
Too often a villains back story involves being rejected by their male/female object of desire. This is a serious attempt at showing a person being driven slightly neurotic.
@mackertheman
2 жыл бұрын
After watching this my head canon is that the giant coin was used in many different places over the years passing from different owners, and it just happened to be involved in a few Batman adventures. And after Batman coming across it so many times he took a fancy to it and managed to wangle it so he could keep it for himself. So not so much a retcon, just an extension of the coins lore.
@TitularHeroine
2 жыл бұрын
Nice. I like it.
@mackertheman
2 жыл бұрын
Well it’s DC, everything is canon 😆
@GenerationWest
2 жыл бұрын
You know, with all these updates to the story, I'm surprised that there isn't anyone who goes "Why are we giving this to Barman?" or them tracking down the coin to find Batman using a metal decay tracker or something... But hey, we still got the giant robot dinosaur to talk about lol
@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of this video is the Captain Picard video clip. Live long and prosper, Sasha, my fellow Trekkie! 💻🖖🏾💖
@blackrazer22
2 жыл бұрын
I always wondered about the coin. I just assumed it was put in the bat cave with no real story behind it. I loved Sasha in her Batman voice telling Robin to clean the blood off the coin and put it the bat cave. You do wonder about the "in universe" line of thinking that says keep a coin that crushed a man in multiple versions.
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackrazer22 Now wondering more than that. What else has Batman told Robin to clean the blood off of to put in the cave?
@blackrazer22
2 жыл бұрын
@@jpboursaw4469 Well there is the Dino and card. A robo dino guarantees a body count. :)
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackrazer22 “Robin! Alfred! Bring the giant ladder and scrub brush to the cave, pronto! Don’t ask why just do it!” Good help is hard to find. 🤨
@TheProjectCoreHD
2 жыл бұрын
I’m just going to go with the personal HC that Batman keeps it in memory of his (nonlethal) with coin truly a hilarious foe and a reminder that sometimes crime doesn’t pay and if it does it’s small.
@gdp3rd
2 жыл бұрын
You had me at "the penny has been retconned" -- that and your Joe Coyne voice!
@Alefiend
2 жыл бұрын
The original story is the superior one, and that's not something I say often when Golden Age comics are involved. There are definitely better uses for that giant penny, though. It's worth a bloody fortune just as scrap metal.
@wingedhussar8552
2 жыл бұрын
In the original golden age story, Coyne comes across more unhinged then some of Batman’s usual rogues
@lordbiscuitthetossable5352
10 ай бұрын
I think that's the thing. It's actually more crazy because it never goes into full blown costumed territory like most of the nutjobs Batman deals with, but is more like an actual criminal with an M.O who is pretty dangerous and inventive. In a way that Joker with Cartoon logic simply can't pull off. Makes retroactively treating him as a complete joke a bit weird, I mean, we take dysfunctional individuals very seriously, but not an actual gangster. Very amusing. XD
@nshaw2311
2 жыл бұрын
That Penny Plunderer comic actually sound really good(?!)
@robertwild9447
2 жыл бұрын
I'm still waiting for the giant penny to make its live action debut in a Batman movie, and the t-rex.
@trissc6855
2 жыл бұрын
I always found reading a comic aloud to be silly, but that penny monologue was just perfect. It's only February but you decided to make the best comic content of the year so far.
@kdisley
Жыл бұрын
0:18 _"This coin has killed, and will kill again."_ That's why it keeps turning up in the Batcave... it's a _bad_ penny!
@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038
2 жыл бұрын
Thought screaming... finally a relatable villain
@adamgoss3638
2 жыл бұрын
It is still kind of odd that the police let him keep it, or that Batman would bother to keep such a ridiculous item. Don't get me wrong, I love the giant penny, it's one of the major highlights of the Batcave along with the giant playing card and the robot t-rex. I just have to wonder how the cops agreed or what Batman was thinking. Maybe the evidence impound for large items was full and so Batman in a rare moment of whimsy offered to dispose of it for the police, or maybe Wayne bought it after the case was closed.. ooor maybe someone ELSE bought it for Wayne. I can see Superman or Alfred putting a bid on it at auction and no one else wanting it, and they manage to secret it into the cave, and Batman just goes along with it? Anyway, I hope you tackle the giant card and dinosaur robot!
@Kitsunekun2
2 жыл бұрын
Batman keeps the giant penny to prevent it from killing someone else.
@jakubmakalowski6428
2 жыл бұрын
Bruce could have easily bought it
@fragelzrock9547
2 жыл бұрын
Police didn’t want to deal with the paperwork 📑
@malcomchase9777
2 жыл бұрын
Look up the time Batman went against Doctor Doom (no, not that one) and you'll see police back then gave away those pieces of evidence like candy.
@metalspinda9594
2 жыл бұрын
I like the Penny Plunderer. I feel like there should be a comeback story about Joe Coyne involving those penny reworking machines at the zoo that turn your penny's into a neat copper trinket...for TWO dollars! Think of the puns! Penny for your thoughts gents??? Eh?
@saintlugia
2 жыл бұрын
I wanted a tangent about payphones
@CasuallyComics
2 жыл бұрын
Lol another time maybe
@jamcalx
2 жыл бұрын
I want him back as a slick heist master with a copper color suit and domino mask learned to have better escape plans after being thwarted by incorrect charge.
@macuna1995
2 жыл бұрын
I love obscure characters like these. *I love obscure stuff in general, whether it's music, films, or comic books. Always a fun time.*
@Shimarenda
2 жыл бұрын
I remember this story! I read it in the early '70s. It may have been a reprint. I especially remember thinking it was great when Batman made a battery from pennies. I tried to remember how he did it in case I was ever in a similar situation.
@benkalem
2 жыл бұрын
I figure a modern interpretation for Coin could be a white collar thing, with Penny Stocks being behind why the dude turned to crime. Him losing everything would be a good reason to attack some stock market dudes for retribution.
@HankChinaski27
2 жыл бұрын
I have learned so much from your videos. I certainly have a new appreciation for Golden and Silver Age comics. I'm seeing that despite their sometimes campy nature, there can be layers to the stories.
@desmonddesjarlais2697
2 жыл бұрын
The batman depicted with that voice is possibly the best version of batman. dark af too. "wash the blood off, robin..."
@thebandwagonfanpodcast
2 жыл бұрын
This story behind the penny is everything I could have hoped for an more. What a wild ride. Haha. So many pennies for so many thoughts.
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
Did this guy have an Aunt Penny? If so, was she his Penny Ante? Also, the modern age version (as indicated by the artwork), traded in his manic thought face, for copious amounts of eye liner! At least he didn’t start an Arcade Fire! I do like the Whim City! But not in a crop top. No one wants to see me in that. Myself included. Not for one red cent.
@TitularHeroine
2 жыл бұрын
I hate this so **** ***** much. I really, really wish I could leave you more than one Like. 😃👍
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
@@TitularHeroine More likes are unnecessary, as that was an insanely cool compliment! But pace yourself. Sometimes I go on full blown rants, and I’ve already signed the waiver to not be responsible for brain implosions (mine, or anyone else’s). Wait - - you were talking to me, right? If not, this will be reeeeealy awkward… Seriously though, thanks! 👌😅
@TitularHeroine
2 жыл бұрын
@@jpboursaw4469 Well then here's a like on *that* comment to up the count, and now I'm just! so! pleased! with myself that I think I will like *my own* comment up there too. There's a lotta Like in this room....😂
@calumsanderson6741
Жыл бұрын
Axel Braun looking at that last quote and going "Barbara, write that down!"
@cyberp1ss
2 жыл бұрын
I love how Sasha makes read really old comics and actually enjoy them, it's a refreshing perspective, in that case even better than most the posterior versions.
@davidmesquita1047
2 жыл бұрын
“The penny has been retconned” is funny asf lol.
@kaseywinters4450
5 ай бұрын
The phrase "Stool Pigeon" was used a lot in the Flintstones but they just meant someone they could easily beat in a game (mainly bowling) so it could have evolved.
@brianaweight2435
2 жыл бұрын
Here's a question, was Riddler really a Green Arrow villan? I hear about it all the time but can't find the story where it happened? Also was it good?
@legoben98productions
2 жыл бұрын
Riddler is a Batman villain but he decided to go to star city to be more recognized than in Gotham, after dealing with green arrow he goes back to Gotham.
@hope-cat4894
2 жыл бұрын
I think that was Deadshot who was originally an Arrow villain.
@RickReasonnz
2 жыл бұрын
@@legoben98productions ....What did Ollie do to him that he preferred going back to GOTHAM and Batman?
@blackrazer22
2 жыл бұрын
@@RickReasonnz Well... Batman will just beat you. Arrow will turn you into a pin cushion.
@legoben98productions
2 жыл бұрын
@@RickReasonnz from my recall it’s just that he wasn’t really challenging to riddler. Casually comics probably has a video on it too, but I think it was around 2007-2009 when riddler and green arrow fought. I’ll let you know if I find the video for you.
@emsleywyatt3400
Жыл бұрын
He could steal quarters, then he'd be a two-bit thief.
@47thStreet
2 жыл бұрын
I'm only a third of the way through the video so far but your writing is just as phenomenal as in that first story. I'm loving it.
@Xehanort10
2 жыл бұрын
9:53 Two Face: What did you say about my car boy?
@EeveeFromAlmia
2 жыл бұрын
The penny is so insanely silly it takes me out of the stories sometimes but whenever a bat cave doesn’t have it I’m disappointed. You gotta have the giant penny somewhere in there it’s the rules
@ianfinrir8724
Жыл бұрын
It really ties the room together.
@jasonpratt5126
2 жыл бұрын
"It doesn't need to be that gritty, bro." -- probably also said by the Riddler's lo-key frat-boy redesign with sideburns, during his crossover with the giant penny.
@JKevinCarrier
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for giving Joe Coyne his due! I've loved this story ever since I read the reprint in the early '70s. I did not know about those later appearances...typical of DC's love/hate relationship with their own history. "Dinosaur Island" coming up next, by any chance? That's another good'un.
@thepanelbiter9915
2 жыл бұрын
They should bring this guy back as a Bitcoin Crime Boss.
@doro626
2 жыл бұрын
The funny thing about " Almost got him" is they later did a Killer Croc episode, where croc almost killed batman with a bolder, but he missed batmans head by a few feet, because Croc was drugged with a powerful sedative that made him pass out and drop the boulder before getting it over his head.
@andreworders7305
2 жыл бұрын
That first story is really good for the Golden Age
@jamesbunt6846
2 жыл бұрын
If it was me I would have made Coin cheap, always trying to pull off crimes on the cheap, being a real penny-pincher!
@jpboursaw4469
2 жыл бұрын
And then there’s J. Jonah Jameson. Often referred to as a skinflint, or a cheapskate. And there’s your next Marvel/DC crossover.
@DetroitAlan01
2 жыл бұрын
Question. When they were doing rough drafts of this story, did they realize how far into comedy they were veering? Given the times this was originally published in, cannot figure that one out.
@scottboswell6406
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's that deep, the Golden Age writers had an all ages audience, there's a level of humor in most stories. Most adults notice, most kids don't.
@paultapner1896
2 жыл бұрын
Pennies are still legal tender here in Britain. Mind you the days of being able to afford a sweet with them are long long gone. Growing up in the 70's, in the days before video games, my family would often go to the seaside town of Swanage on days trips. One of the amusement arcades there had a machine where if you put in a penny and pressed a button, it would launch a model rocket and if it hit the moon - model rocket on a stick, this is - you would win a piece of bubblegum. That gum was absolutely horrible to the taste. But I always enjoyed playing that machine anyhow. Kids these days don't know what they're missing. Long gone from circulation though are half pence pieces. I forget when they vanished. They were so small and fiddly nobody liked them. So no chance of their ever having been a half penny plunderer. Is the expression spend a penny, - a euphemism for using a public convenience - strictly British or is it universal? Suppose the Penny Plunderer got caught short when in the middle of a crime and had to go and deal with, he would then find Batman waiting for him when he comes out the toilet. 'Ironic. The Penny Plunderer. A criminal who steals pennies. Had to spend one. And that brought him to justice.'
@RickReasonnz
2 жыл бұрын
Nice, what were the chances of hitting the moon? Here in New Zealand, our lowest value coin is a 10c. Phased out 1, 2, and 5's decades ago.
@paultapner1896
2 жыл бұрын
As far as recall, about ninety percent. We still have two pence five pence and ten pence coins as well
@titaniumbat7820
2 жыл бұрын
Joe really got that tales from the hood ending in the 90s. It’s messed up because it’s not like he was killing people heavy in that story. Like I’d take purgatory but not straight up hell
@claudws
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if DC felt that one coin theme villain was enough and that resulted in the unceremonious deaths.
@lolsaidthescorpionlmao
2 жыл бұрын
The animated series were the perfect mix of silly and serious stories, the Joker going around and killing while doing messed up things and monologuing "it's not about the money" it's cool but kinda edgy while the joker fearing the IRS, throwing explosive pies, using other thematic weapons/gadgets and actually being greedy and wanting to rule the crime underworld is actually fun, same with other villains, Catwoman robbing cat related jewelry/art, the penguin stealing bird stuff, two face using an unnecessary coin flip trap to kill batman, these days most villains kill and do crimes without using their corny themes even a little, comics take themselves too seriously but I guess you can only use a gimmick villain so many times before you run out of ideas.
@wildheartrazorfang6
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a Sequential Art student (Basically it means I'm studying comic art) and I just wanted to say I appreciate the fact that you go through all the jobs that go into making a comic step by step.
@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of this video is the Captain Picard video clip. Live long and prosper, Sasha, my fellow Trekkie! 💻🖖🏾💖
@KB0OTY
Жыл бұрын
Your delivery of Joe's manifesto is priceless.
@vasp99
2 жыл бұрын
In reality very little of the Batman art attributed to Bob Kane was done by Bob Kane . It was mostly ghosted by another artist . Kane paid his ghost artists poorly , blamed them when stories were poorly received and gave them absolutely no public credit , claiming their work as his own for decades . Bob was perhaps not the highest caliber person .
@CasuallyComics
2 жыл бұрын
Lots of issues of credit across the fields in the gold and silver ages...and well the medium in general alas.
@brandongiles7240
6 ай бұрын
The 90s Penny Plunderer story is the first Batman comic I remember owning. I’ll always have a soft spot for it. I remember reading (most of) the golden age story and wondering why he didn’t end up in hell.
@itried8968
2 жыл бұрын
Since his demise was by that giant, heavy coin.......you could say he was.......... penny wise pound foolish
@samanthaweidner2040
2 жыл бұрын
Giving joe coyne Christopher walkens voice was just perfect! Chefs kiss
@macsnafu
2 жыл бұрын
Now what we really need is a new story that ties all the Giant penny stories and continuity together.
@Isaac-vq9gw
2 жыл бұрын
I was also one of the people sure that Two-Face was the origin of the coin
@thenationaltimelyactionhou9328
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve read this issue of World’s Finest, and I love it! I’m always happy to see your videos Sasha!
@lanceyoung9955
10 ай бұрын
Lol, I can see keeping it as a light hearted souvenir, but hard to see why modern Batman would want a giant coin that crushes a guy. "Alfred just wash the blood off and I'll stick it in the cave"
@rebeccakickass1776
2 жыл бұрын
I was just telling someone about Batman's giant penny right before you released this....lol I love the golden age penny story best. Can you also tell about Batman's Dinosaur in the bat cave
@MasterZebulin
2 жыл бұрын
"This Coyne has definitely flipped." Shit, that's a good one. Lost it on that one. 😆
@james.b.mcgill
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if I love it, or hate it but you kill me every time with that Batman voice.
@Kriskazam
2 жыл бұрын
i feel like penny plunderer is gonna make a huge popular comeback in the way kite man did especially with the big penny occupying people's consciousness for a while already, and people knowing the original origin of it or can at least easily look it up.
@Kriskazam
2 жыл бұрын
7:46 i was about to say...there's a pretty well paced colorful kind of narrative here for an older story haha
@DaDualityofMan
2 жыл бұрын
I would have never thought there was so much history behind the penny, and Coyne is the type of character I feel bad for since it seems like he just exists to get shitted on.
@sustelsuk
2 жыл бұрын
Special trivia, in the Batman from 2003, the giant penny is from an episode starring the ventriloquist called fistful of felts
@CasuallyComics
2 жыл бұрын
That's an underrated episode
@chuckerlandsoniii415
2 жыл бұрын
I died when you edited in the scene from First Contact! Thank you, I needed that laugh!
@zacjumpman209
11 ай бұрын
They should do a story where someone new comes to the Batcave and asks Batman about the giant penny, and Batman just says "You know, I've had that thing so long, I don't even remember where I got it."
@JohnSuave
2 жыл бұрын
No Sasha..... there are literally no good arguments to continuing to use pennies. We should get rid of nickels and dimes too.
@KasumiKenshirou
Жыл бұрын
I don't know why they overcomplicated things. They could've just had the Penny Plunderer story happen first. Since the story doesn't state anything about Batman taking possession of the coin, it would've gone back to the museum. A later story could have Two-Face steal it, and the museum just gets tired of all these criminals trying to steal the coin so they give it to Batman (or he buys it, or whatever). Regarding Coyne's "pennies and coppers" rant, there was an episode of TAS where Riddler leaves a clue in the form of change in a pay phone. The change consists of pennies and quarters, and indicates "police headquarters". And instead of the edgelord death for Coyne, they could've just had the coin fall on his legs. Then he could come back in a wheelchair that has giant pennies for wheels.
@timsmalley7432
2 жыл бұрын
lol "Robin wash the blood off We'll put it in the batcave!"
@jayzonely
2 жыл бұрын
Plausible explanation for the discrepancy noted at 9:19 -- Two-Face of Earth 1 (late 1950s continuity through Crisis on Infinite Earths) may have used a penny, as Jason says, whereas the Two-Face of Earth 2 (1938 through late 1950s continuity) used a disfigured silver dollar. Therefore, no discrepancy. The DC editors and continuity cops are always right.
@kryptoknightmk1
2 жыл бұрын
Since I was born in the 80s for the longest time I only ever knew of the Two Face connection to the coin. It wasn't til I was talking comics with my father one day that he brought up the Penny Plunderer, confusing me greatly. Lol
@davidmcmahon4633
2 жыл бұрын
The fact that you and your dad talk about comics is great in and of itself! And the multi-generational outlook must have made it fun too!
@Werewolf914
2 жыл бұрын
It is really funny that Batman is a savage and wants Robin to clean off the blood so he can keep the coin, but also is one of those "but why though?" Things. I definitely think Batman TAS did it best but also the Original Golden Age story is great too.
@zachwise476
2 жыл бұрын
Personal headcannon: there was a villain that snuck into the Batcave with a shrinking / grow Ray. He used it on Batman but missed or something and got the penny instead. This saved him and helped him take out the bad guy.
@anitanielsen1061
2 жыл бұрын
“He looks 35” is the new “he sounds like a 40-Year-old chainsmoker” XD
@T4N7
2 жыл бұрын
I'd argue that him shooting the rope holding the giant penny is him flipping a coin, the giant coin
@redleaderantilles1263
5 ай бұрын
I love that the original story is genuinely better than the modern attempts. Trying to make fun of the Golden Age or make a gritty version of a Bill Finger story is already an uphill battle. The man was the master. The first time I read the Penny Plunderers I was blown away. It is classic Finger, socially conscious elements about wealth, random neat trivia, clever schemes that have an internally consistent logic, and good plotting. The whole thing works and the jokey element or absurdity of it is part of the mild commentary. Joe Coyne's life and future are worth less than a penny in a way funnier and darker manner than "oh what if he got smushed by the giant penny, that'd be metal!!!". My point is Bill Finger is unironically still the GOAT
@PsychoStreak
2 жыл бұрын
The perfectly placed Picard pieces perked up my Presidents day.
@todd8398
2 жыл бұрын
There was a "Batman: Gotham Knights" story where it was a quiet night in Gotham, so Batman called Aquaman to help him recover the giant penny, which had fallen into the ocean after an earthquake had hit the Batcave. Aquaman found it on the ocean floor. He told Batman that it would be impossible to lift back up, "...but you knew that already, didn't you?". Batman then admitted he was feeling lonely and just wanted someone to talk to! The cover for that comic is great, it shows Aquaman floating in front of the penny underwater with a nonplussed look on his face!
@DIEGhostfish
2 жыл бұрын
17:09 shooting the rope WAS flipping the coin.
@sobaditsgood448
2 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine Sasha doing a series about Batman’s different trophies! I’d be there for every episode!
@d-manthecaptain1382
2 жыл бұрын
In that one cartoon, "The Batman", he gets the giant penny from Scarface and the Ventriloquist.
@MoesTube1
2 жыл бұрын
Kind of disappointed that "Batman's giant penny" wasn't a euphemism for something else but still a great vid Sasha. 🤭🤦🏾♂️😁
@davidmcmahon4633
2 жыл бұрын
"Almost Got Him" is one of my favorite episodes from the series!! As to why Batman was the last story in World's Finest, during that time, the two best stories book-ended an issue. The middle of the book was the least popular stories with the two page story in the middle being the worst. And they had to have that two-page story for some kind of tax or mailing reason - technically being a periodical, not a comic book. Might be worth a bit to research that for your channel.
@mathieuleader8601
2 жыл бұрын
I like how in the Venture Bros. its Superman parody Captain Sunshine he too has a giant penny in his HQ
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
9 ай бұрын
When the cliche _"A penny for your thoughts"_ gets out of hand...or pocket. 😊
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